Currently raising · @holaelara

Building
Elara.
Designing the rest.

Daily AI support for Spanish-speaking Latinas — in her language, her voice.

I'm Kara — founder, product designer, the kind of operator who finishes the construction call before the design review. 9 years across Capital One, Techstars, Web3 launches, and a 5-villa development in Bali. Currently building Elara with Alejandra Ramirez.

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Selected work
AI · Consumer · Founder
Elara
Daily AI support for money, clarity, and stability — co-founded with Alejandra Ramirez. Spanish-first, pre-launch.
4,610 surveys · 1.8M+ audience
Fortune 100 · Enterprise UX
Capital One
4 years shipping at scale — MFA, dev tools, ML chatbot, design systems. Founded an internal design community of practice.
60K users on MFA
Real Estate · Operator
Shakiro Villas
5 boutique villas in Bali — founder-designed, founder-led. Brand, investor deck, pricing strategy, and ops built from zero.
5 villas · Bali
Web3 · SocialFi · Consulting
Stack.so
87-hour consulting engagement: UX research, monetization UX, creator funnel, and IRL launch at Token2049 + Paris Blockchain Week.
87 hrs · 2 events
The range

Nine years
building things
that shipped.

60K
Users on the MFA flow I redesigned at Capital One. Shipped to production, used daily across the company.
4,610
Survey responses informing Elara v1. Real women, in their own words, shaping the product.
1.8M+
Audience behind Elara's launch — co-founded with creator Alejandra Ramirez. Day-one distribution, not paid acquisition.
9+
Years across Fortune 100, Techstars, AI, Web3, and physical product. The range is intentional.
Selected work

Projects.

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Building now AI · Consumer · Founder
elara.
Elara
Daily AI support for money, clarity, and stability — in her language, her voice. Co-founded with Alejandra Ramirez. Her 1.8M+ engaged Latinas = day-one distribution, not paid acquisition. I lead product, design, and build. She leads voice, community, distribution. Launching into 80K direct community first. Raising $500K pre-seed.
4,610 survey responses  ·  1.8M+ audience  ·  $500K raising
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Fortune 100 · Enterprise UX 9 yrs
Capital One
4 years embedded in TECH.XD and Delivery Experience. Shipped to 60K users (MFA), 7K associates (TIR), cut chatbot support time 60%, killed half the failed builds on the company CI/CD. Founded the internal design community of practice on the side.
60K users on MFA  ·  4 yrs shipped at scale
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Web3 · SocialFi · Consulting
Stack.so
UX + brand strategy consultant during launch. Web3-native to Web2.5 transition, USD payouts, creator funnel across Discord + Reddit, IRL activation at Token2049 + Paris Blockchain Week. Documented hourly — receipts on hand.
87 hrs billed  ·  2 events · launch deck
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Real Estate · Operator Bali
Shakiro Villas
5 boutique villas in Tumbak Bayuh, Bali — founder-designed, founder-led. Brand, investor deck, pricing, sales materials, and the 11pm calls about tile grout. Construction as a product launch.
5 villas  ·  brand + ops + sales
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Building something
worth talking about?

Investors raising on Elara, founders who want a senior generalist, product teams hiring — say hi. 24-hour reply window unless I'm in Bali (then 36).

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Currently
Elara
Spanish-first AI · pre-seed · raising $500K
Building
Roles & conversations
Investors · collaborators · product roles
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Location
Remote globally
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